Magic Evening

Première 2 February 2017
Running time 1 hour 5 minutes. No interval.

Director Anica Tomić
Dramaturg Jelena Kovačić
Author of music Nenad Kovačić
Set and costume designer Anica Tomić
Lighting designer Miljenko Bengez
Visual designer Marko Petrić
Photographer Damir Žižić

Cast
Ivana Krizmanić • Natasa Kopeč • Marko Makovičić • Marko Petrić 

An absolutely ordinary evening. Two couples in an apartment. A good dinner and several bottles of wine. A lot of chatting about everything and nothing. About politics, art, crisis, crosses, failed loves and Vivaldi. About the time in which everything is allowed, in which criteria cease to exist, yet there are those who persistently keep on establishing them. And then suddenly an utterly banal, perhaps even just a haphazard event that stops them, that brings that magic evening to a halt for just a moment. A banal event that will pose a probably totally banal question: What are you afraid of? A banal event that, however, will not conclude just with that question but will insist and ceaselessly keep on posing new ones. Where can your fears lead you? When is the moment in which fear turns into paranoia? When is the moment in which one can no longer distinguish between truth and illusion? Or is it all true after all and we are no longer safe anywhere? Not even in an apartment, on one evening with a good dinner and several bottles of wine?

We are faced with fake people, as fake as their fears are, but these are the images of the time we live in and that is why this production is a new current hit. The two authors share the responsibility for this outcome with actors, all of them brilliant in their roles.

Bojana Radović, Večernji list, Croatia, 4 February 2017